Orr they are changing a good amount for NHL 10. Completely new fighting engine where now you fight from the first person and the players can get hurt in them. Also, there will be after the whistle stuff, so if you go to check someone or slash someone (like i always do) after the whistle, it will probably be a penalty. I read this on IGN a little while ago.

NYR guy , yeah I hit after the whistle alot too , it relieves fustration. Players get knocked to the ice ORR and thier sticks magically come back like luc skywalkers lightsabre. Be nice to see a stick break during a hard slap shot or a 2 hander on someone and the stick breaks. Maybe next seasons game will include a dam Video review cuz last I saw the nhl does have one..get on it already EA!!!

That sounds awesome. The fighting always sucks, for some reason they never get it right. And it’s cool to see scrums after the whistle, i always slash the goalies head, and i love it when you slash one of the players, and they make a loud “oww, ohh: noise. It’s hilarious.

Hopefully this game kicks ass. Sadly, Malkin will probably be on the cover. Ugh !

GREG

Did you ever see the glitch, where you make a glove save top shelf and it counts as a goal. It only happens in the shootout. Plus if you make a pad save, and the puck touches the goal line, then it’s a goal. It’s like when Hank robbed Briere in game 4 of the semi’s in 07.

I also hate the wrap arounds. There are people that know how to score goals on the wrap around easily. It’s annoying, and impossible to defend. You can literally score aboot 20 goals. Some crazy japanese kid did it to me 9 times.

ORR WHAT !?!?
June 4th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
“No I wasn’t! Don’t believe the impostors! There’s only one REAL Captain Clutch!”

Just like Highlander, you have to find the others, and cut their heads off. Then you will have the power, you will win the prize !!! The power of mortality, to be one with all living things !! And to be clutch !!

“There is talk the Rangers might waive D Wade Redden at the start of next season and send him to the AHL’s Hartford Wolf Pack to get his $6.5-million salary off the books. New York has tried to deal Redden, but nobody is willing to bite. He still has $32.5 million and five years left on his contract ..”

Who really cares about Cindy, Malkin or for that matter any of the Pens or Wings? The reality is our team is light years away from another serious Cup challenge thanks to the fabulous drafting and FA signings made by our GM. Fire Sather!!

You can draft in NHL 09. Also in NHL 08, and i think 07. You have 5 or 6 draft picks, you can trade them or keep them. And the cool thing is, usually the #1 overall player is pretty decent, and has am 80+ rating, so it’s kind of realistic, you might actually draft a star to build your team around.

Lol, but at the same time, it’s fake. What i would do, is take the team that’s on the bottom of the league in the standings, and right before the deadline, i would trade my first, and seconds picks, and sign a couple of free agents, and trade them for that teams first.

MIKE

Lol, i was thinking aboot watching, but i have the special “Prize” edition dvd, with the metal box.

ORR , No I haven’t played in the shoot-out much , it’s kinda lame and I usually play continios ot . I have seen the puck touch the goal line and it counted and I saw my buddy score by pushing the puck through the back of the net. I shoot a beuty wrister from the side of the net by the boards and it picked the top corner and bounced out!!! There was no post sounds and we were perty sure we heard mesh!!

The Wrap arounds can be stoppped , my buddy is a pro at it and I used it to get a much needed goal. To defend it , you turn into your goalie and stack up on the side hes releasing. We score wrap around close to the post side and the other post so ya goto gamble right. useing you defenseman to smash the bugger as hes wrapping is always my fav thing.

No country , Yeah ea was great back then and I played every game but stopped after NHL99 on the n64 , after that xbox took over and EA was more retarded and goals were easily scores by the ” flipper ” from the point always liffed over the goalies head into the net. As I said before i won the grand championship of EA NHL95 , those were some good ol days.

I’ll believe it when I see it…Garrioch is probably reading all the fan sites…but about waivers, you only pay half the salary on re-entry waivers, so if they demote him and then bring him back up before the POs, he can be claimed at half-price. Otherwise, it’s full price.

ORR , we also made each of us a created 99 rating goalie to dress as a back up on our 2 factory teams we play . Im no pro at being my goalie like i am in n64 but im getting better and having these created awsome goalies our games are better now..no easy gay goals , but still played 4 -3 game ( 5 min always )1 timers went in and I walked in and took a high glover that went in. You hold the puck and the goalie flops down , skate around him and pop it in the empty net.

Redden may be taking up cap space but the fact hes taking up a younger players spot is the reason to ditch him. Redden could have played all a fire to win the hearts of us Ranger fans and didn’t , at least Gomez looked like he was trying or we ‘d be frying his azz in stead.

Satan is a great answer , Penguin try to sell him off and look at him go now …Pens have no class

Hers my take on booing:

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I agree with boooing your own team after the buzzer after a bad period or boooing a player a during intermision but to do it while the games on , make your own team panick and over think resulting in even worse play ala Malik is not helping the cause. Fans pay big bucks to watch these players perform and to see them not is a waste of our good hard earned dollars ,but to voice your opinion in a negative way as your team is trying to wake up is more selfish because all you care about is your money waisted ..big deal , suck it up and booo the crap outta them after the buzzer goes off ending the first period….heck , throw beer or spit on ’em but leave ’em alone when it’s time to get back to work because its ALL Of our dollars and time were waisting so cooling it during game play may turn some floaters around , make ’em pay at the buzzer and give a clean slate to the start of the period.

Redden was our best d-man in the playoffs. I am willing to give him a chance because Torts is handling conditioning/training and the entire pre-season stuff.

Redden played his best in an offensive system in Ottawa when he had Chara as his partner.. Chara would make up for any lapses and Redden could provide the offense.. with that being said, Staal – Redden should never be separated.

Doodie, I think there’s a chance he’ll be waived, but no chance he’ll be claimed, and I don’t think the Rangers are willing — yet — to just send him to Hartford and eat all that remaining salary just to get him off the books. But that could happen during the season, or after 09-10 if he doesn’t improve.
I still think he can be serviceable, and I thought he was better under Torts and in the playoffs. He will just never come close to justifying that salary, which will be an albatross until the contract is over.

downeaster – I could almost guarantee a team would grab Redden on re-entry. He’s definitely worth the risk at $3.25 million, and at that rate, buying him out wouldn’t even be that big of a deal(like $1.75 million per). Keep in mind, this was a top defensive pairing not more than two years ago, and he’s only 32. My guess is that there’s something wrong in this guy’s head or heart. He was twice the player in the post-lockout season…almost a point-per-game. Maybe it was just because of Chara, but I didn’t think those guys were even paired together.

UKRanger – I was thinking it would be nice to pair Reds with a bruising stay-at-homer. Kommisarek’s name comes to mind. That way, maybe he would have enough confidence to join the rush and use SOME of his offensive skill. He needs to, ’cause his defense blows(See: Federov, Game 7).

ZzZz – I’m not sure if you’ve played in games with a large crowd or not, but it’s almost impossible to hear anything by the pounding of your heart, the wind in your face and the shouts of your linemates when your on the ice. I’ve only played in front of a packed crowd a few times, and the only time you can hear them is when your on the bench. Even then, it’s more muffled than you would expect. Goalies, on the other hand, do hear a lot. I had a bunch of friends come to one of my games once and they were heckling the other team something fierce. After the game, it was the goalie that came flying out of the locker room to punch one of them.

Doodie – Satan is done. That guy isn’t even worth half his $3.5 million salary…especially cause he’s in his mid-30s. The other thing I’m not sure of…I don’t think he had to clear re-entry waivers for the playoffs. Teams can put something like three guys from their minor league teams on their PO roster, and as far as I know, the rosters don’t need to be cap-compliant(cause the Pens aren’t right now). It should be interesting to see if the maneuver they did with Satan is mimicked by other teams dealing with cap issues. I wouldn’t mind letting Redden rot in Hartford for a year and then have him back up for the cup run.

And cause it’s slow…just a few reflections on ‘ol Snoop. The guy carries around Smyth’s jock for three years, so that moron Slats thinks he’s actually a 30-goal scorer and trades for him…Then all Snoop does is kick of his rapping career in NYC…traded for Jagr, which is one of the most lopsided deals ever…and eventually lands next to the Sedin sisters, who get him a career-high 33 goals. Snoop, being the dumb moron that he is, believes he’s worth more than a drop of piss in a rusted bucket…holds out and lands with the Jackets, who promptly figure out he’s a fourth-line player(in Switzerland) that somehow conned his way onto a first line. HILARIOUS.

“There is talk the Rangers might waive D Wade Redden at the start of next season and send him to the AHL’s Hartford Wolf Pack to get his $6.5-million salary off the books. New York has tried to deal Redden, but nobody is willing to bite. He still has $32.5 million and five years left on his contract … ”

That’d be a pretty bold move to send him down.
The problem with Redden (other then him being a parking cone most nights this past season) is that even if he comes in next year like a whole new player he’s not going to be worth his contract. Ever. Just as Carp was saying in the chat yesterday about captain clutch. Sather signed him to that deal and it is what it is…we’re stuck.

All I want is a stud homegrown draftpick superstar forward to root for at some point in my lifetime that will be a career ranger ala Rod Gilbert. Is that too much to ask for? I didnt even know what hockey was when he played here. i dont want other team’s headaches. I want a player that makes me proud to be a Ranger fan that the rest of the league envies.

orr- lol i do the exact same thing. i usually trade a couple of good free agents i sign for the worst teams draft picks. i drafted a guy rated 89 and had had a b+ potential!! its fun, but very unrealistic that they would trade their number 1 pick.

is there away to delete created characters in NHL 09. I am stuck with 4 different players with my name that are different skill types and cant delete them off the FA list. I had to resort to making them Christain Dube clones so no one would sighn them LOL

Yeah, well “Cindy” notwithstanding, so much for the Bettman/Pens conspiracy. Maltby clearly whacked him in the back, no call. If EVER there was a chance to favor the Golden Boy and penalize Detroit something fierce. Here it was… and there it went.

Yep, that’s right the Annointed One Himself got cheap shotted, and not a darn thing done by the league. Even after Versus showed the replay.

Maybe now you conspiracy crybabies can get some pacifiers to suck on, and be quiet.

well looks like a created 99 rating goalie isn’t the shizzle cuz my buddy plays really good defense and his created goalie is Grant Fuhr at 99 everything but compared to Fluery , Fluery has a A- potential , where Fuhr has only a B- potential. weird , but I beat him an hour ago 6 – 1 and he pulled out his created goalie and put Fluery back in!! HAHAA!!

Jane & Carp Great live chat yesterday. During the season you need to do them more often. Closer to the mikes guys as I have a sore neck from leaning too close. Have the Red Wings gone in the tank or are the Penquins just coming on that strong??. I just didn’t see Pittsburgh winning because the Wings appeared so deep. Penguins seem to be beating the Wings to the puck all over the ice & their goaltending is better.

I was discussing Steven Wright the comic with some of you guys a couple of weeks ago. Some of you were big fans, some had never heard of him. I just saw that he’s on with Letterman tonight at 11:30. (It’s after Seinfeld, so I encourage you to check him out).

ORR WHAT – That’s what pissed me off back when he was with the Rangers…here we have this guy who is supposed to be a bad-ass 30-goal scorer, and he’s out starting his own F$CKING rap label?!? WTF?!? I wanted him gone more than anything. I never wanted Jagr here(and actually hated him almost as much as Cindy), but when Carter was going the other way, I changed my tune quicker than P-Diddy can drop a base line…from an interview with ESPN’s David Amber in 2006:

Q: You can be distinguished as the only NHL player with his own rap label. You’re the chairman and CEO of Big Up Entertainment. How did you get the label started?

A: I’ve been out here in sunny California for about 10 years now, so just being exposed to the entertainment industry gave me the idea to do something like this. During my first contract negotiation with the Boston Bruins back in 1998, I started to think about life after hockey and I always thought there was a possibility that I could wake up someday and my ability to play hockey could be taken away, so I wanted to make sure I was prepared for when that day finally comes.

Q: So what exactly is Big Up Entertainment?

A: We started with a couple of artists, Main and Merc, their first single “Passion N Pain” climbed to No. 6 last summer on the college charts. We have been using college DJs and the Internet to cultivate their fan base. We are also producing their first feature movie called “Bald.” We are in post production, finishing the editing and sound right now. We want to expand our horizons and dabble in the music, movie and digital information world that’s out there, and not limit ourselves to one form of entertainment.

Are you talking aboot that baby slash to Crabby’s foot ? Lol, did you see his reaction, he should be suspended for acting like a puss.

I thought he got elbowed, but he got a little heel tap.

Unless you’re talking aboot something else.”

Yeah man, that was the dive and flop of the century. Crosby looked like he had been shot to death with a bazooka and there was barely any contact. The Versus announcers went silent during the replay because they didn’t want to point out what a horrible dive it was.

I can almost hear Crosby saying “WTF, REF?!? HE TRIED TO ATTACK ME…HE SLASHED ME…IT’S HIS FAULT!!! WHERE ARE YOU SENDING ME?!? WHAT’S THIS BOX THING?? UNCLE GARY SAYS I DON’T HAVE TO GO…I’M TELLING UNCLE GARY…”

Thank goodness people enlightened joke m. On the dive of crosby’s life. I thought he had stopped, but that may have been the best of his career if you believed it… Or maybe that doesn’t say much now that I think about it.

I liked Anson Carter on the Bruins and Oilers and never got why his career went downhill so much on the Rangers/Caps 2nd time/Kings/Canes/Jackets. Maybe that ice is EDM is that good and gave him more speed?

I’m 28 now and would like to see a few more Cups in my lifetime. I mentioned 3 the other day and my friends were like “3?!!!!! I’ll settle for one” and gave me the look of craziness. It’s very possible it just has to be done the right way and getting a homegrown core of about 10-12 guys is step one.

Most realistic hockey game is by far East Side Hockey Manager 2007. Unfortunately it was pirated too much so they stopped making it but there are plenty of people that keep it updated with correct player ratings and rosters.

Warning, you do not play this like an arcade game, it is a GM game complete with scouting, drafts, contract negotiations, injuries, player moral etc….